Hamidou Dia is the chief architect of the North America Technology and Public Sector Sales organization; he leads a team of highly specialized enterprise architects and consulting services professionals. These experienced enterprise architects, strategists, and consultants collaborate with customers across North America to align IT to business or organizational strategies, consolidate IT systems to reduce costs, define strategic roadmaps for future growth, and implement highly optimized solutions.

Dia pioneered the enterprise architecture discipline and practice at Oracle—enterprise architecture is now a global Oracle methodology for enabling customers to optimize and modernize their IT environments. Today, he brings strategic leadership and technical expertise to enable customers to transform their IT environments leveraging cloud, big data, social, mobile, and the Internet of Things.

Dia is a globally recognized enterprise architecture and consulting services leader who speaks at a number of conferences, such as the Gartner Symposium and Forrester Forum, and at the Oracle Open World Enterprise Architecture Summit.

Prior to founding the enterprise architecture discipline and practice at Oracle, Dia held a number of other leadership positions at Oracle, focused primarily on leading large, complex, global technology project implementations. Earlier in his career, he was chief architect of a management consulting firm in Paris. He has held various technical architecture roles for industrial engineering and defense subcontractor firms, also in France.